Sentences with phrase «core sloshing»
Michael Le Bars at the Non-Equilibrium Phenomena Research Institute in Marseille, France, says large meteorite impacts that occurred until about 3.9 billion years ago also could have set the lunar core sloshing for periods of 10,000 years at a time (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature10565).
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How did the moon remain magnetic tens of millions of years after its molten core stopped sloshing?
HOW did the moon remain magnetic tens of millions of years after its molten core stopped sloshing?
This represents the stage at which the planet's solid rocky core begins to melt, creating a molten material that sloshes around in Mercury's mantle before erupting onto the surface.
From those observations, they detected the sloshing motions of the solar core.
The researchers studied surface acoustic waves in the sun's atmosphere, some of which penetrate to the sun's core, where they interact with gravity waves that have a sloshing motion similar to how water would move in a half - filled tanker truck driving on a curvy mountain road.
The researchers think that, as the iron core of the dying star collapsed, it gave off neutrinos that heated the matter behind the shock wave, causing bubbles to rise (rather like they would from the bottom of a pot of boiling water, Grefenstette said) and causing material to slosh around.